Inspiring the Next Generation of Teachers

By: Audrey Malagon, Lead Editor of DUE Point As professors, we carefully craft lessons that will inspire, engage, and hopefully pass on the joy of learning mathematics to our students. Some of these students are preparing to be teachers themselves, completing upper-level mathematics courses as part of the requirements for secondary mathematics teaching certification. But...

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Mathematics Education in the Time of COVID-19

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Links to resources and information posted by the member societies of CBMS are available at https://cbmsweb.org/covid-19. I was going to use this column to briefly introduce some of the many...

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MAA Recommendations for COVID-19 Response

By: Rachel Levy, Deputy Executive Director MAA @mathcirque The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) recognizes the unusual circumstances faced by the mathematical sciences community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students, staff, and faculty are facing demanding challenges due to increased caregiving responsibilities, economic hardships, and a lack of resources for teaching and learning, including access...

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Online Learning, Privacy, and the Future of Society

By: Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America As many of us (myself included) move to online tools to carry out our work, I am thankful for the technological infrastructure that allows many of us to continue our work, albeit in dramatically changed circumstances and with expectations in flux. I am pleased...

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Peak AP Calculus, What Comes Next? Part II

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences This column was written before the covid-19 pandemic disrupted all of our lives. Nevertheless, I am keeping this post because it deals directly with issues of equity, one of the...

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Making Sense of the COVID-19 Data

By: Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin How dangerous is the novel coronavirus, and how does that risk compare with other risks we face in our lives? That’s a question many of us asked as the pandemic started to make its way across the Atlantic. Like a number of other mathematicians, I took data from online sources such...

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Supporting our community during COVID-19

By: Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America I find myself reflecting during this time of uncertainty. We are experiencing an unprecedented situation, where emotions are heightened and disruption seems like the new “normal.” While everything around us seems ever-changing, I want to assure you that our focus at the MAA remains...

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Community in a time of COVID-19

By: Carrie Diaz Eaton, Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, Bates College, @mathprofcarrie A lot has happened over the last few months in the world. And it seemed to come to a rising frenzy over the last two weeks in academia as major conferences canceled, schools sent students home, and everyone discussed how to...

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CalcPlot3D is Better Than Ever

By: Audrey Malagon, Lead Editor of DUE Point The  CalcPlot3D graphing applet has been changing the way students interact with multivariable calculus. In this project, Monica VanDieren of Robert Morris University tells us how she and Deborah Moore-Russo (University of Buffalo) joined with CalcPlot3D creator Paul Seeburger (Monroe Community College) to study impacts on student...

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Help! I need to teach my course online and I’ve never done this before!

By: Yvonne Lai, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Ray Levy, Deputy Executive Director, MAA @mathcirque This is cross-posted in the AMS Blog on Teaching and Learning Mathematics with a companion post from Abbe Herzig. In times of crisis, we need community. With schools, colleges and universities mandating online teaching and learning in...

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